Some of the popular presentations show slides that mimic blackboards, and charts or diagrams look that like drawn by chalk. Here you will find some tricks that help to create slides like this:

Hand-drawn diagrams and flowcharts became popular lately, but you cannot use default PowerPoint shapes to create them. In this tip, you will see how to create a custom arrow shape with a freehand effect.

PowerPoint provides a lot of tools that help you to create unique and memorable presentations. Custom shapes allow you to develop reusable pieces and use them many times in the presentation or multiple presentations.

For some charts or diagrams, you need to create a regular polygon – equiangular (all angles are equal) or equilateral (all sides have the same length). E.g., equilateral triangle, regular square, etc.

When you create a text box in your presentation, any text you type appears has the default font that can be different from version to version...

When you create a shape in your presentation, it is created with the default style and any text that you type has the default font.

Using different fonts for creating shapes is useful, fast, and easy. Different letters of different fonts can give the creative and modern look of your pictures. Letters can emulate brush or crayon effect, water stains, or even drops and waves. This tip is about the drops effect that can help you to create beautiful pictures.

There are a lot of ways how to show your picture in the PowerPoint slide. You can choose different borders with ornaments and colors, you can use different shapes for it, or you can use letters like shapes. This tip is about the water stains effect that can help you to create illustrations.

To create a modern looking illustration in your PowerPoint presentation, you can use a brush effect, or add pictures with torn edges, or make a mask for pictures using simple and fast tricks. This tip is about another effect that can help you to create different crayon effects.

When you create a presentation, you simply choose some existing company presentation template. However, you might need to invent something new and creative to impress the stakeholders. This tip shows how to use several simple shapes to create a visually appealing design for your slides.